Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-06T01:48:25Z

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I do think the old model was better; by holding down major changes for
> six months or so after a new even release came out, people had a chance
> to polich the stable release, and developers had time to recharge their
> batteries so to speak, and to sit and think about what they wanted to
> do, without feeling the pressure to write code and submit it right away.
> Knowing that there's no place to send code for six months is a great aid
> to generating GOOD code.

It never worked that way, which is why the model changed.

Like it or not, developers would only focus on one release. In the old
model, unstable things would get shoved into the stable kernel, because
people didn't want to wait six months. And for the unstable kernel, it
would often be so horribly broken that even developers couldn't use it
for development (think 2.5.x IDE).

Jeff